Stoa - forum app that use redis as a primary database

Overview of My Submission

Stoa is a small forum app. The inspiration is a need of minimalistic internal forum for organizations. Designed to look like a typical social media app.

The main purpose of the project is to test redis as main database. I am using redisJSON to store documents and RediSearch to perform searches.

Stack:

• Typescript
• Next.js
• tailwindcss
• Redis stack

Some thoughts from mine experience:

Advantages:

• Easy to understand
• Fast integration thanks to redis-om-node library. In dozen minutes, we are ready to start manipulating with documents.
• We can storage several types of data, not only json.
• RedisInsight app is really helpful during development process. Cool!

Disadvantages:

• It's tricky when we want to build related data structure. We need to handle it by extending an entity class.
• We have to create index on a collection, before starting to search anything. It's tricky for the first time.

Submission Category:

MEAN/MERN Mavericks

Language Used

JS/TS/Node.js

Link to Code

pavelee / stoa-redis-stack

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Stoa

Stoa is a small forum app. The inspiration is a need of minimalistic internal forum for organizations. Designed to look like a typical social media app.

The main purpose of the project is to test redis as main database. I am using redisJSON to store documents and RediSearch to perform searches.

Stack:

• Typescript
• Next.js
• tailwindcss
• Redis stack

How it works

How the data is stored:

Data is stored as documents using redisJSON

How the data is accessed:

Data is accesed through redis-om-node

How to run it locally?

You can run it loccaly using docker.

Prerequisites

• Docker

Local installation

Run containers

docker-compose up -d

Acess app in the borwser

http://localhost:3000

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Additional Resources / Info

• Check out Redis OM, client libraries for working with Redis as a multi-model database.
• Use RedisInsight to visualize your data in Redis.
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Comments

[Nick | OneThingWell.dev]

Nice.

I never tried Redis OM. How does it handle and store relations - it just encodes them in the keys or?

[Paweł Ciosek]

Thanks!

It doesn't handle relations. You can embed a document or keep foreign key as a string.

eg. in the app, we fetch author of post by getter:

   async getAuthor() {
        let client = await getRedisClient();
        let repo = client.fetchRepository(userSchema);
        let user = await repo.fetch(this.author);
        return user;
    }

So later in code we can do:

topic.getAuthor().name

[Nick | OneThingWell.dev]

I see... I noticed annotations for relations in an example Java code, but I guess that's limited to Java/Spring Redis OM flavor...